ppint. 9th Jun 2024 | | BookChristopher Priest - Indoctrinaire (1971) | indicia publishing history of the canadian-printed declared second printing states:
pocket book edition published october, 1971
second printing ..... august, 1971
the canadian-printed "second printing" was intended for distribution north of the parallel
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ppint. 9th Jun 2024 | | BookChristopher Priest - Indoctrinaire (1979) | pan macmillan pan books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b, first slightly shorter revised edition
cover art by geoff taylor (unsigned, uncredited; on geofftaylor-artist.com website)
cover price 75p (overseas territories prices)
192pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp: 1p. author's note, 1p. advertising
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ppint. 9th Jun 2024 | | BookChristopher Priest - Indoctrinaire (1971) | simon & schuster pocket books canadian mmpb "second printing" apparently first mmpb edition followed by merkin "first printing"; these may have been published simultaneously
cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; his very distinctive style is recognisable)
cover price 95¢
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
canadian-printed copies bear a small maple leaf cutout in the richard powers artwork on the front cover
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ppint. 9th Jun 2024 | | BookChristopher Priest - Indoctrinaire (1970) | faber & faber (he + himself) h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover art (unsigned restricted palette (red & black, title left white) of ear on a wall)
cover price £1.40
228pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, a blank end p, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 8th Jun 2024 | | BookJules Verne - A Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1965) | at least three near-identical printings with rising cover prices, not fully reported/recorded:
the material copyright noted as ©1965 in the thomas bouregy/airmont books indicia is the forward by robert a. w. lowndes ("doc lowndes")
1965
cat# CL60
no sbn (not yet invented)
cover price 50¢
256pp. including titles, indicia,forward etc.
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(1972??)
cat# CL60
cover price 75¢
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(c.1979 ?)
cat# CL60
(cover price liable to've been c.95¢-$1.25)
...
6/1982
cat# CL60
isbn 0-8049-0060-4
cover price $1.50
front & back cover images provided by oldmod67 above
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ppint. 7th Jun 2024 | | BookLiane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers (2019) | random penguin group penguin first uk p/b printing
first uk h/cvr edition random penguin group michael joseph imprint 2018
dedication: for kati. and for dad with lots of love from me
cover art unsigned, uncredited other than images © getty images
cover price £8.99
464p. including ten unnumbered pp. titles, indicia, 2pp. introductions, etc, 20 end pp. including acknowledgements, 3pp. interview, 1p. questions for discussion, 1p. how i created tranquilium house (nf) liane moriarty, 2pp. adverts, 8 blank pp.
unexplained indicia printing number: from 001, rising through (at least) 020 which identifies the twentieth printing
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ppint. 4th Jun 2024 | | BookChristopher De Hamel - Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts (2018) | random penguin group penguin books p/b first printing, probably first p/b edition
first edition was published under allen lane, and this edition bears "an allen lane book" on back cover
cover art unsigned, uncredited
b+w frontispiece anonymous, reproduced from painting in the house of jean de navarre, paris c.1334
cover price £12.99, $27.99 can(ada)
656pp (640pp. including eight pages titles, indicia etc, plus 16pp. unnumbered colour plates section), 62 end pp: bibliographies and indices, 2 blank pp.
unexplained indicia printing number: 001
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ppint. 30th May 2024 | | BookIvan Howard - 6 And The Silent Scream (1964) | contents:
ask a foolish question - robert sheckley (short story) science fiction stories #1, undated (6/1953)
children of fortune - d. a. jourdan (novelette) science fiction quarterly vol.4 #6, 2/1957
peace on earth - irving e. cox, jr. (ntte) future vol.5 #1, 6/1954
riddle of the deadly paradise - frank belknap long (ntte) (the original) science fiction stories vol.9 #4, 11/1958; strato bre #7, both as by charles long
vulcan's hammer - philip k. dick (novella) future #29, 4/1956
the ear-friend - r. e. banks (ntte) (magazine title later prefixed, ''the original...'') science fiction stories vol.5 #5, 3/1955
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ppint. 30th May 2024 | | BookCharles Willeford - The Machine In Ward Eleven (1963) | contents:
the machine in ward eleven (novelette) playboy 3/1961
selected incidents (short story) (? 1962)
a letter to a. a. (almost anybody) (ss) apparently original in this collection
jake's journal (ntte) apparently original in this collection
"just like on television -" (ss) apparently original in this collection
the alectryomancer (ss) (? 1959)
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ppint. 30th May 2024 | | BookRichard Aldington - Death Of A Hero (1965) | states "the first complete and unabridged edition" on front cover.
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ppint. 30th May 2024 | | BookRichard Aldington - Death Of A Hero (1936) | states "complete unabridged" (split by "penguin looking left" logo) on front cover.
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ppint. 25th May 2024 | | BookKurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle (1983) | dell's mmpb cat# remained 1149 for many printings, through the beginnings of a renumbering that eventually turned into adopting the extension of the uk sbn system into the isbn system - isbn10 numbers each ending with the checksum digit.
non-systematic numbers on the spines of some printings include 440-01149-125 where the final element is the merkin cover price in cents.
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ppint. 25th May 2024 | | BookKurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle (1983) | cover art by murray tinkelman (unsigned, retained from 9/1965 first dell mmpb printing where credited)
cat# 11149 essentially retained from 9/1965 first dell mmpb printing cat# 1149
cover price u.s. $3.25, can(ada) $3.95
192pp. including titles, indicia etc.
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ppint. 8th May 2024 | | BookTheodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange (1959) | almost all mmpbs follow this, not the full contents of the doubleday first edition & book club editions, until the hamlyn paperbacks uk p/b & the daw mmpb 1978 editions, which are complete.
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ppint. 8th May 2024 | | BookTheodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange (1959) | publisher should^W has been corrected to "berkley medallion" as bookcat goes by the imprint, not the publishing group nor the ultimate corporate owner
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ppint. 8th May 2024 | | BookTheodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange (1978) | contents:
mr costello, hero (novelette) galaxy vol.7 #3, 12/1953; galaxy strato bre #14, both: three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller
the touch of your hand (novella) galaxy vol.6 #6, 9/1953; galaxy strato bre vol.3 #11, both: three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller
affair with a green monkey (short story) venture vol.1 #3, 5/1957
a crime for llewellyn (ss) mike shayne mystery magazine 10/1957
it opens the sky (nlla) venture vol.1 #6, 9/1957, the cover story, art by ed emshwiller, with one b+w illustration by john giunta; venture atlas bre #9, 5/1964
a touch of strange (ss) f&sf vol.14 #1, 1/1958; venture atlas bre #20, 4/1965
the other celia (ss) galaxy vol.13 #5, 3/1957; galaxy strato bre #50, both: with one b+w illustration by diane dillon, leo dillon
the pod in the barrier (ntte) galaxy vol.14 #5, 9/1957 with three b+w illustrations by wallace wood; galaxy strato bre #56, 11/1957 with one b+w illustration by wallace wood
the girl had guts (ntte) venture vol.1 #1, 1/1957 with one b+w illustration by john giunta
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ppint. 8th May 2024 | | BookDamon Knight - In Deep (1963) | publisher should be corrected to "berkley medallion" as bookcat goes by the imprint, not the publishing group name, nor the ultimate corporate owner
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ppint. 8th May 2024 | | BookDamon Knight - In Deep (1972) | almost certainly scheduled and in production when macfadden books (and the larger macfadden-bartell corporation too?) were taken over and turned into manor books.
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ppint. 7th May 2024 | | BookMichael Moorcock - The Warlord Of The Air (1978) | daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, not first mmpb edition
cover art by gino d'achille (unsigned, credited)
cover price $1.50
near-meaningless daw books collector no. 291
176 pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer to printing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing, may 1978 and both bear full first printing number line, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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ppint. 7th May 2024 | | BookMichael Moorcock - The Warlord Of The Air (1978) | shares the merkin-printed covers of the daw books, inc. mmpb first printing
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookMichael Moorcock - The Citadel Of Forgotten Myths (2022) | elric series #1.5:
#1: "elric of melniboné" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookMichael Moorcock - The Woods Of Arcady (2023) | the sanctuary of the white friars trilogy(?) #2:
#1: "the whispering swarm" (2015), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookMichael Moorcock - The Whispering Swarm (2015) | the sanctuary of the white friars trilogy(?) #1:
#1: "the whispering swarm" (2015), (this book)
#2: "the woods of arcady" (2023), q.v.
#3: "the wounds of albion" (nyp)
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookDean R. Koontz - The Long Sleep (1970) | popular library mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by jack faragasso (signed)
445-00325-125 number-string on cover is not an (i)sbn
cover price $1.25
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookDamon Knight - In Deep (1972) | manor books mmpb first printing, not first merkin mmpb edition
cover art by jack faragasso (unsigned, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
2/1973; near-identical manor books mmpb second printing differs:
drops the mb logo from fly top corner of front cover,
adds manor books in small black type vertically on two lines before the author's name
cat# 75444 (i.e. drops the hyphen)
indicia publishing history adds two lines:
first printing. . . . august, 1972
second printing . . . . february, 1973
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookChristopher Priest - Inverted World (1974) | * - check if my faber h/cvr includes andrew stephenson's illustrations
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookGail Kimberly - Flyer (1975) | art is for sale on ixgallery.com
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookJames P. Fisher - The Great Brain Robbery (1970) | belmont publications belmont mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by jack faragasso (signed faragasso bottom edge or guillotined off, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
160pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, 6 end pp: 2 blank, 3 advertising, 1 mail-order form
number-string 505-2072-075 on spine (nor sbn, nor isbn; last 3 digit element is cover price)
date of printing nor publication given, copyright date year ©1970 taken as date of publication
cover art was for sale (now sold) on ixgallery.com, faragasso's signature is clearly visible
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ppint. 5th May 2024 | | BookG. McDonald Wallis - The Light Of Lilith (1961) | ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other
cover art by ed emshwiller (signed, uncredited)
cover price 40¢
½ 224pp. (check) including 2 x 4pp. titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
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ppint. 5th May 2024 | | BookGeorge O. Smith - Fire In The Heavens (1959) | half ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other
cover art (unsigned, uncredited)
cover price 35¢
½ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
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